ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 371 
pointed for the purposes, Thomas Halyborne and John Stepe 
required several times the assent of the elected ; "et tandem post 
diutinas interpellationes, et deliberationem providam penes se 
habitam, in hac parte divine nolens, ut asseruit, resistere volun- 
tati,'^ within the limited time he signified his acceptance in the 
usual written form of words. The bishop is then supplicated to 
confirm their election, and do the needful, under common seal, 
in the chapter-house. November 14, 1410. 
The bishop, January 6, 1410, apud Esher in camera inferiori, 
declared the election duly made, and ordered the new prior to 
be inducted — for this the archdeacon of Winchester was written 
to ; " staliumque in choro, et locum in capitulo juxta morem 
preteriti temporis,*^ to be assigned him ; and every thing beside 
necessary to be done. 
Beaufort's Register, Vol. L 
P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia de 
Selebourn, cum Capella, — xxx marc, decima x lib. iii sol. Vicaria 
de Selebourn non taxatur propter exilitatem. 
P. 9. Taxatio bonorum temporalium religiosorum in Arch- 
idiac. Wvnton. 
Prior de Selebourn habet meneria de 
Bromdene taxat. ad xxx s. ii d.; 
Apud Schete ad xvii s. 
P. Selebourne ad vi lib. 
In civitate Wynton de reddit. . . . vi lib. viii ob. 
Tannaria sua taxat. ad x lib. s. 
Summa tax. xxxviii lib. xiiii d. ob. Inde decima vi lib. s. q. ob. 
LETTER XVII. 
Information being sent to Rome respecting the havock and 
epoil that was carrying on among the revenues and lands of the 
Priory of Selborne, as we may suppose by the bishop of Win- 
chester, its visitor. Pope Martin,* as soon as the news of these 
proceedings came before him, issued forth a bull, in which he 
enjoins his commissary immediately to revoke all the property 
that had been alienated. 
* Pope Maitiu V. chosen about 1417. He attempted to reform the church, but died in 1481> 
just as he had summoned the council of Basil. 
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